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starring: Tony Goldwyn, F. Murray Abraham, Kurt Fuller, Stacy Edwards, Giancarlo Gianninidirected by: Jon Purdy
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0012236130567
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: Live / Artisan
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 5522
Studio: Live / Artisan
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The world can be divided into two camps: those who will watch Joshua reverently and gratefully, and those who will not touch it with a 10-foot pole. The reverent probably own Joseph F. Girzone's bestselling novel about a mysterious but friendly loner who shows up in a small American town and blesses every life he touches. Whites and blacks, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews will work side by side as newly recognized brethren; an estranged couple will resolve to save their marriage; the lonely and disconnected will embrace and be embraced by community; etc. The message--the healing power of Christ's love--is beyond reproach, the intentions of the filmmakers entirely benign, but there is not one whit of dramatic tension or narrative complication to any of it. The cast is stronger than usual in such religious projects (Tony Goldwyn, Oscar® winner F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini as the Pope), but no one has a prayer with a script that posits the hero's Christhood on the fact that 12 people show up for his going-away dinner. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A wonderful, sweet parable
Watch this with your family (all ages invited) or thoughtfully alone. It's a story, from the Joseph Girzone novel, of a stranger that arrives in a small town. The tale unfolds obviously into a 21st century mirror of Jesus' experiences in the 1st century gospel story . . . healing, Pharisees, patience and compassion, persecution, love.
Without question, any believer will take issue with SOME theological difference they can locate in this presentation. But if you are a follower of Jesus, ... Read More
Rating:  - Amazing Movie
One of the absolute best Christian movies available. Very touching. Keep watching it over & over.
Rating: - good movie
The best reason I can think of for owning this movie is to be able to watch for the little details the second time you watch it that you might have missed. (look for the Challah bread!) My family and I really enjoyed this movie. Some of the parts of the movie were very clever in how they used passages from the bible in the context of this story (for example, "I am what I am").
Rating: - Funniest movie I've EVER seen!
When my roommates and I got "wrecked" last night and decided to find a movie to watch, we had no idea what wonder awaited us on our DVR. Our local Christian channel had broadcasted the cinematic gem, Joshua. Our lives would never be the same.
As soon as the fat, bald guy from Ghostbusters II delivers his first putrid line of narration, the laughs become endless. Enter the bad guy from Ghost, who can miraculously carry an 800 lbs. treetrunk ten miles while two fat halfwits follow him and gamble. ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie
Wholesome movie for the whole family. Joshua is in a sense Jesus Christ in the flesh, he touches everyone's heart in a very special way and brings the whole community together. Wonderful movie.
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